white; striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus); speech; one's lines; white dragon tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles; (arch.) white person
condensed milk; Soviet Union
exile; deportation; banishment
ruin; depravity; corruption
living a roaming life; wandering and settling in a foreign land
curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
three kinds; three varieties
to cut (grass, hair, etc.); to mow; to clip; to trim; to prune; to shear
I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded
each; (arch.) you (plural)
how many years; how long; what year
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pathetic; piteous
pitiful; heartbreaking; heartrending; touching; tragic; sad
Emperor Ingyou; Ingyou Tenno
meal; Emperor's meal; meal of a noble; high-quality (of a food or drink); premium
to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal
to see; to look; to watch; to try to
to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)
pitiful; pathetic; painful to look at
to blindstitch the inside of a fold with (equally spaced) threadings (i.e. pulling shoe lacing tight)
to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)
in succession; one after another
Son of God; Jesus Christ; child of an emperor
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
to run (of liquid); to spread; to blur; to blot; to ooze; to well up (of tears, etc.)
swan (Cygnus spp.); white-feathered bird
(professional) storyteller; hereditary role of narrator in early imperial court
to meet somebody by chance; to happen upon
human; human-like; as a person
historic; historical; traditional
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
plump; rotund; chubby; entirely; completely; wholly